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                <p>In this topic, you can learn how to fill in the details of an issue work item. For
                    information about how to create this type of work item, see <span sdata="link"><a href="WorkItemsandWorkflowGovDev.html">Work Items and Workflow (GovDev)</a></span>.</p>
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                                <p><span class="label">In this topic</span> </p>
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                                <p><span class="label">Related topics</span> </p>
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                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#CreateIssues">Defining an Issue</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#LinkIssue">Linking an Issue to a Use Case, Task, or Other Work Item</a>
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#AddDetails">Adding Details, Attachments, or Hyperlinks to an Issue</a>
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#CloseIssues">Closing Issues</a></p>
                                    </li>
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                                <p><span class="label">Workbooks</span> </p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="IssuesWorkbook.html">Issues Workbook</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                                <p><span class="label">Field Reference</span> </p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="AssignmentsandWorkflowGovDev.html">Assignments and Workflow
                                            (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="AreasandIterations.html">Areas and Iterations</a></span> 
                                        </p>
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                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="PlanningRankingandPriorities.html">Planning, Ranking,
                                            and Priorities</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TitlesIDsDescriptionsandHistoryGovDev.html">Titles, IDs,
                                            Descriptions, and History (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="LinkingWorkItemsGovDev.html">Linking Work Items (GovDev)
                                            </a></span> </p>
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                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="Attachments.html">Attachments</a></span> </p>
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                <p><span class="label">Required Permissions</span> </p>
                <p>To view an issue, you must be a member of the <span class="ui">Readers</span> group
                    or your <span class="ui">View work items in this node</span> must be set to <span
                        class="ui">Allow</span>. To modify an issue, you must be a member of the <span class="ui">
                            Contributors</span> group or your <span class="ui">Edit work items in this node
                    </span> permissions must be set to <span class="ui">Allow</span>. For more information,
                    see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/8f1f5f39-ed0f-4539-bee1-7e7e77bb5728">
                        Managing Permissions</a></span>.</p>
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                onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(sectionToggle0, event)" tabindex="0">
                <img id="sectionToggle0" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Defining
                an Issue</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection0" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <p>The work item form for an issue stores data in the fields and tabs that are shown
                    in the following illustration:</p>
                <img alt="Work Item Form for Issue" src="../art/ProcGuid_NewIssue.png" /><h3 class="procedureSubHeading">
                    To define a single issue</h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>In the top section of the work item form, specify one or more of the following types
                                of information:</p>
                            <ul>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In <span class="ui">Title</span>, verify and, if necessary, update the text to more
                                        accurately define the problem and the areas of work that are affected. </p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In the <span class="ui">Assigned To</span> list, click the name of the team member
                                        who is responsible for addressing the issue.</p>
                                    <div class="alert">
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                                            <tr>
                                                <th align="left">
                                                    <img class="note" alt="Note" title="Note" src="../icons/alert_note.gif" /><b>Note
                                                    </b></th>
                                            </tr>
                                            <tr>
                                                <td>
                                                    <p>You can assign work items only to members of the <span class="ui">Contributors</span> 
                                                        group. </p>
                                                </td>
                                            </tr>
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                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In the <span class="ui">Area</span> and <span class="ui">Iteration</span> lists, click
                                        the appropriate area and iteration, or leave these fields blank to be assigned later
                                        during a planning meeting. </p>
                                    <div class="alert">
                                        <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                                            <tr>
                                                <th align="left">
                                                    <img class="note" alt="Note" title="Note" src="../icons/alert_note.gif" /><b>Note
                                                    </b></th>
                                            </tr>
                                            <tr>
                                                <td>
                                                    <p>Your project administrator defined the <span class="ui">Area</span> and <span class="ui">
                                                        Iteration</span> tree hierarchies so that team members can track progress by those
                                                        designations. For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/6b0d2df4-c638-4637-af93-86db64ca73ab">
                                                            Create and Modify Areas and Iterations</a></span>.</p>
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                                </li>
                                </a>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In the <span class="ui">Priority</span> list, click the level of importance of the
                                        issue on a scale of 1 to 4, 1 being most important.</p>
                                    <p>By default, this value is 2. </p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In <span class="ui">Due Date</span>, click the date by which the issue must be resolved.
                                    </p>
                                    <p>By default, this value is the current date.</p>
                                </li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>On the <span class="ui">Details</span> tab, specify one or more of the following types
                                of information:</p>
                            <ul>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In the <span class="ui">Description</span> box, provide as much detail as you want
                                        to describe the issue.</p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In the <span class="ui">History</span> box, provide as much detail as you want.
                                    </p>
                                    <p>You can format the text that you type in this box. </p>
                                    <p>Every time that a team member updates the work item, its history shows the date of
                                        the change, the name of the team member who made the change, and the fields that
                                        changed.</p>
                                </li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Link the issue to other work items, such as a use case or task.</p>
                            <p>For more information, see the next section in this topic.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click
                                <img alt="Save" src="../art/Icon_saveWIT.gif" />
                                <span class="ui">Save Work Item</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
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                <img id="sectionToggle1" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Linking
                an Issue to a Use Case, Task, or Other Work Item</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection1" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <p>On the <span class="ui">Links</span> tab, you can link an issue to another work item.
                </p>
                <h3 class="procedureSubHeading">To link an issue to a use case, a task, or another
                    work item</h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>On the <span class="ui">Links</span> tab, click
                                <img alt="Add Links" src="../art/Icon_addLinks.gif" />
                                <span class="ui">Link to</span>. </p>
                            <p>The <span class="ui">Add Link to Issue </span> dialog box opens.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>In the <span class="ui">Link Type</span> list, click <span class="ui">Related</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Perform one of the following actions:</p>
                            <ul>
                                <li>
                                    <p>In <span class="ui">Work item IDs</span>, type the IDs of the work items that you
                                        want to find. Separate IDs by commas or spaces. </p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>Click <span class="ui">Browse</span> to specify work items from a list.</p>
                                    <p>The <span class="ui">Choose linked work items</span> dialog box appears.</p>
                                    <img alt="Choose linked work items dialog box" src="../art/WIT_ChooseLinked.png" /><p>
                                        In the <span class="ui">Saved query</span> list, click a query that contains the
                                        work items that you want to add. For example, you can click <span class="ui">Open Use Cases</span> or <span class="ui">Open Tasks</span>.</p>
                                    <p>Click <span class="ui">Find</span>, and then select the check box next to each work
                                        item that you want to link to the issue.</p>
                                    <p>Click <span class="ui">OK</span>.</p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>(Optional) Type a description for the items that you are linking to. </p>
                                </li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click <span class="ui">OK</span>. </p>
                            <p>For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/962b01e8-9b2f-46bf-b13e-15020f35b665">
                                Find Work Items to Link or Import</a></span>.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click
                                <img alt="Save" src="../art/Icon_saveWIT.gif" />
                                <span class="ui">Save Work Item</span>. </p>
                            <div class="alert">
                                <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                                    <tr>
                                        <th align="left">
                                            <img class="note" alt="Note" title="Note" src="../icons/alert_note.gif" /><b>Note
                                            </b></th>
                                    </tr>
                                    <tr>
                                        <td>
                                            <p>Both the issue and the items to which you linked are updated. A <span class="ui">
                                                Related</span> link to the issue is defined for each work item that you added.
                                            </p>
                                        </td>
                                    </tr>
                                </table>
                            </div>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
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                <img id="sectionToggle2" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Adding
                Details, Attachments, or Hyperlinks to an Issue</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection2" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <p>You can add information to an issue as more information becomes available. You add
                    details to an issue in the following ways:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Type information in the <span class="ui">Description</span> or <span class="ui">History
                            </span> field.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Attach a file.</p>
                        <p>For example, you can attach an e-mail thread, a document, an image, a log file, or
                            another type of file. </p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Add a hyperlink to a Web site or to a file that is stored on a server or Web site.
                        </p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <h3 class="procedureSubHeading">To add details to an issue</h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click the <span class="ui">Details</span> tab. </p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Type information in the <span class="ui">Description </span> field.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>(Optional) Type information in the <span class="ui">History</span> field.</p>
                            <p>You can format information to provide emphasis or capture a bulleted list. For more
                                information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="TitlesIDsDescriptionsandHistoryGovDev.html">
                                    Titles, IDs, Descriptions, and History (GovDev)</a></span>.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click
                                <img alt="Save" src="../art/Icon_saveWIT.gif" />
                                <span class="ui">Save Work Item</span>. </p>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
                </div>
                <h3 class="procedureSubHeading">To add an attachment to an issue</h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>On the <span class="ui">Attachments </span> tab, perform one of the following actions:
                            </p>
                            <ul>
                                <li>
                                    <p>Drag a file into the attachment area.</p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>Click
                                        <img alt="Paste" src="../art/Icon_pasteWIT.gif" />
                                        or press CTRL-V to paste a file that you have copied.</p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>Click
                                        <img alt="Add Attachment" src="../art/Icon_addAttachment.gif" />
                                        <span class="ui">Add</span>, click <span class="ui">Browse</span>, and, in the <span
                                            class="ui">Attachment</span> dialog box, type or browse to the name of the file
                                        that you want to attach. </p>
                                    <p>(Optional) In the <span class="ui">Comment</span> box, type additional information
                                        about the attachment. To close the <span class="ui">Attachment</span> dialog box,
                                        click <span class="ui">OK</span>.</p>
                                </li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click
                                <img alt="Save" src="../art/Icon_saveWIT.gif" />
                                <span class="ui">Save Work Item</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
                </div>
                <h3 class="procedureSubHeading">To add a hyperlink to an issue</h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>On the <span class="ui">Links </span> tab, click
                                <img alt="Add Links" src="../art/Icon_addLinks.gif" />
                                <span class="ui">Link to</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>In the <span class="ui">Link Type</span> list, click <span class="ui">Hyperlink.</span> 
                            </p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>In the <span class="ui">Address</span> box, perform one of the following actions:
                            </p>
                            <ul>
                                <li>
                                    <p>If the target is a Web site, type the URL, or copy it from your Internet browser
                                        and paste it into the <span class="ui">Address</span> box.</p>
                                </li>
                                <li>
                                    <p>If the target is a server location, type its UNC address.</p>
                                </li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>(Optional) In the <span class="ui">Comment</span> box, type additional information
                                about the hyperlink.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click <span class="ui">OK</span>. </p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click
                                <img alt="Save" src="../art/Icon_saveWIT.gif" />
                                <span class="ui">Save Work Item</span>. </p>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
                </div>
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                an Issue</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection3" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <p>After an issue has been resolved and is no longer blocking progress, you change the
                    state from active to closed. For more information about data fields that track states
                    of work items, see <span sdata="link"><a href="AssignmentsandWorkflowGovDev.html">Assignments
                        and Workflow (GovDev)</a></span>.</p>
                <h3 class="procedureSubHeading">To close an issue</h3>
                <div class="subSection">
                    <ol>
                        <li>
                            <p>Open the issue.</p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>In the <span class="ui">State</span> list, click <span class="ui">Closed</span>.
                            </p>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <p>Click
                                <img alt="Save" src="../art/Icon_saveWIT.gif" />
                                <span class="ui">Save Work Item</span>.</p>
                        </li>
                    </ol>
                </div>
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                <div class="tableSection">
                    <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
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                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Typical workflow progression</span>:</p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>A team member creates an issue in the <a href="#Active">Active</a>state with a default
                                            reason of New.</p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>A team member changes the state from <a href="#ActiveClosed">Active to Closed</a>
                                            when the issue is resolved or no longer blocking progress.</p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                                <p><span class="label">Additional workflow transitions states</span>:</p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>A team member determines that the issue was closed in error and reactivates the issue
                                            by changing the state from <a href="#ClosedActive">Closed to Active</a>.</p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Issue State Diagram</span> </p>
                                <img alt="Issue state diagram" src="../art/ProcGuide_Issue.png" /></td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </div>
                <a name="Active" />
                <h3 class="subHeading">Active (New)</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>All work items are created in the <span class="ui">Active</span> state. Each issue
                        remains in the active state as it is being implemented. The team member who is assigned
                        to the issue tracks its progress and that of any use cases, tasks, or other work
                        items that it affects. </p>
                    <a name="ActiveClosed" />
                    <h4 class="subHeading">From Active to Closed</h4>
                    <div class="subsection">
                        <p>When you close an issue, the <span class="ui">Assigned To</span> field is automatically
                            populated with the name of the team member who created the issue, and the <span class="ui">
                                Reason</span> field is set to <span class="ui">Issue Resolved</span>.</p>
                        <p>The following data fields are automatically captured during the transition from active
                            to closed:</p>
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                                <p><span class="label">Closed By</span>: Name of the team member who closed the work
                                    item.</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p><span class="label">Closed Date</span>: Date and time when the work item was closed,
                                    as recorded by the server clock.</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p><span class="label">State Change Date</span>: Date and time when the state for the
                                    work item was changed.</p>
                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <a name="Closed" />
                <h3 class="subHeading">Closed</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <p>Any team member can reactivate a closed issue if it was closed in error.</p>
                    <a name="ClosedActive" />
                    <h4 class="subHeading">From Closed to Active</h4>
                    <div class="subsection">
                        <p>When you reactivate an issue, the <span class="ui">Assigned To</span> field is automatically
                            populated with the name of the team member who closed the issue. The <span class="ui">
                                Reason</span> field is set to <span class="ui">Reactivated</span>. </p>
                        <p>The following data is automatically captured during the transition from closed to
                            active:</p>
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                                <p><span class="label">Activated By</span>: Name of the team member who reactivated
                                    the work item.</p>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <p><span class="label">Activated Date</span>: Date and time when the work item was reactivated,
                                    as recorded by the server clock.</p>
                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>
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                <h4 class="subHeading">Concepts</h4>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="IssuesWorkbook.html">Issues Workbook
                    </a></span> </div>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="TaskGovDev.html">Task (GovDev)
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                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="UseCaseGovDev.html">Use Case
                    (GovDev)</a></span> </div>
                <h4 class="subHeading">Other Resources</h4>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="GovDevv1.0.html">
                    GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0</a></span> </div>
                <div class="seeAlsoStyle"><span sdata="link"><a href="WorkItemsandWorkflowGovDev.html">
                    Work Items and Workflow (GovDev)</a></span> </div>
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